Enjoy these cocktails that are a classy step up from your usual cheap beer!

• Joe Dirt (2001)
• Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)
• Deliverance (1972)
• Water Boy (1998)
• Dukes of Hazzard (2005)

The Romantic Redneck playlist on Spotify

PBR, Busch Lite, and Budweiser, oh my! Bust out your redneck-worthy cheap beer of choice and your red Solo cups. Your date is getting started with a little beer buzz by playing redneck beer pong!

If you don’t want to drink alcohol for this activity, substitute Mountain Dew or another drink of your choice.

What makes this version of beer pong redneck-worthy?

• The cups are set up in the shape of buck’s head (the mounted version, of course, being the pinnacle of interior design in any redneck’s home)
• Re-racks must be requested using your best southern drawl with pre-defined prompts (provided below)

What you need for this activity

• 28 plastic cups
• 2 ping pong balls
• Cheap beer, Mountain Dew, or other drink of your choice

Instructions

1. Use 14 cups for each player and set up your cups in the shape of a buck as pictured above.
2. Fill up the cups with as much beer as you both agree to. You can also have a “death cup” if you both agree to it – one cup that you fill up with a full can of beer on each side. Remember you have a whole date to enjoy and this is only your first activity so only drink as much as you can comfortably handle.
   • Psst! Save your empty cans – you’ll need them for your other Romantic Redneck date activties.
3. Set the stakes! Agree to a prize for the winner or punishment for the loser. You can also just play for bragging rights throughout the rest of the night.
4. Choose who gets to go first, or flip a coin.
5. Each player gets two shots with the ping pong balls per turn. Don’t remove any cups until both shots have been taken. Make sure to keep your elbow behind the edge of the table when you throw.
6. If you hit a cup, your partner has to drink! Other rules:
   • If you hit both balls in the same cup in one turn, you get to remove 3 cups, but your opponent gets to pick which 2 to remove in addition to the cup that you hit.
   • If you bounce the ball on the table (as opposed to throwing it) and it lands in a cup, the cup you hit gets removed and 1 other cup of your opponent’s choosing.
   • If the ball spins around the rim of the cup before the ball falls into the drink, you can try to pick the ball out with your fingers or blow it out. If it comes back out of the cup, then the cup remains in play. If the ball still falls down into the drink despite your efforts, the cup gets removed and you have to drink.
7. You are allowed 2 re-racks during your game, meaning that you can order your opponent to rearrange your cups to your liking to make them easier to hit. In our redneck version of the game, you can only order a re-rack after you first recite one of the re-rack statements below.
8. Whoever gets rid of all of their cups first wins!
   • Psst! Save your empty cups – you’ll need them for your other Romantic Redneck date activities.

Modifications

• Use Mountain Dew or another non-alcoholic drink of your choice instead of beer.
• If you don’t have a table large enough to play beer pong with cups on each side:
  • Set up just one buck (14 cups) in the middle of a smaller table. Assign where you each have to stand to shoot your balls. You can be as close to as far from the table as you both agree is fun!
  • Put the cups on the floor at the same distance apart that you normally would if they were on a table. Sit on the floor while you play!

Re-rack phrases

Not the most attractive of activities, but fun nonetheless! You and your partner will be testing your aim again, this time with your mouths and sunflower seeds instead of a gun. It’s time to get seed spittin’!

What you need for this activity

• 6 plastic cups (preferably red Solo cups for authenticity)
• Sunflower seeds with shells on them

Instructions

1. Set up your plastic cups on the floor in 2 straight rows with 3 cups each in front of the couch or 2 side-by-side chairs like the picture above (bird’s eye view).

2. Divvy up your sunflower seeds so you each have approximately the same amount. If you really want to you can count them out so you each have an even number, or pour them into measuring cups so you each have the same amount.

3. Spit your seeds into the cups in front of you ONLY (not into your partner’s row). You can choose to eat the sunflower seeds inside the shells first if you’d like, but they’re easier to spit when they’re whole.

4. When you are done spitting your seeds, count how many you have in each of your cups and tally the numbers for each cup. For example, partner 1 might have 12 seeds in cup 1, 9 in cup 2, and 7 in cup

5. See what you’ve won for each cup in the tabs below!

Winnings

We at Dating in Captivity don’t condone the use of real firearms during your date (gunfire will surely wake your kids, after all), but a little target practice with a toy weapon is most appropriate. Let’s find out which of you is the better shot during our foam dart shooting activity!

Your activity is broken up into 3 mini games. There can be a winner dubbed for each of the 3 mini games, or just one ultimate winner dubbed for winning 2 out of the 3 mini games. Decide now!

What you need for this activity

• A toy gun with foam bullets/darts, like this one
• A stuffed animal
• 5 empty cans
• A black shirt and pants for each partner
• Baby powder OR flour

Instructions

First thing’s first. Choose your prizes or punishments for the winner and loser. Here are some suggestions!

1. The winner gets a 15 minute massage from the losing partner
2. The winner gets a kid-free sleeping in morning with breakfast in bed provided by the losing partner
3. The winner is free of laundry duty for a week, and the losing partner must take care of all of the laundry
4. The winner gets a sexual favor of their choosing, and the losing partner can’t say no
5. The winner gets to choose the next Dating in Captivity date!

Mini Game 1: Kill Teddy

1. Put a stuffed animal across the room away from anything that might break if it gets in the line of fire. You can start by putting it out in the open and then increasing the difficulty by hiding it partially behind other objects as your advance in the rounds.
2. Agree to where you and your partner need to stand or sit to hunt your animal.
3. Each partner gets 1 shot from your agreed upon spot to hit your stuffed animal. You get 1 point for hitting the animal.
4. Repeat this 5 times so your stuffed animal has been in 5 different locations around the room by the time you are finished.
5. The winner is the partner who has the most points for the most hits to the animal after 5 rounds.

Mini Game 2: Shoot the Can

1. Line up 5 empty cans on the back edge of a table or counter so they will fall off onto the floor when you shoot them.
   • Tip: Put a towel or blanket on the floor where the cans will fall down to minimize any noise when they fall if you are trying not to wake the kids.
2. Pick your location where you should stand or sit to shoot your cans.
3. Each partner gets 5 shots to knock the cans off the table (reset the cans between turns).
4. The winner is the partner who knocks the most cans off the table after their 5 shots.

Mini Game 3: Shot Through the Heart

1. Each partner should put on a black shirt and black pants.
2. Dip the tips of your bullets/darts in water and dab them so they aren’t dripping wet, just damp. Then put the tips in baby powder or flour. Load your gun.
3. Partner 1 is now the target. Choose where they should stand in relation to the shooter.
4. The shooting partner then has 3 shots to hit the target partner: 1 shot has to hit the middle of the back, 1 shot has to hit the right side butt cheek, and 1 shot has to hit the heart. Your powdered bullet tips will help you see where you actually hit.
   • This is really a fun trust exercise! Try not to move as the target partner!
5. Switch roles.
6. The winner is the partner that had the most accurate shots on the target partner.

We all know rednecks love a little mud under their boots, but we parents tend to put lots of effort into NOT letting muddy shoes into our homes. We are therefore taking the concept of the muddy redneck and refining it with a romantic redneck mud spa treatment.

What you need for this activity

• A mud facial mask

Instructions

1. Read the directions on your mud mask carefully before use and be sure to only use as instructed.

2. Help each other get muddy! Put your mud masks on your faces and wear them through to the end of your next activity (or as long as instructed).

3. Take a selfie together with your mud masks and share your photo to your social media profiles. Be sure to tag @datingincaptivity!

We must admit that we never really understood or enjoyed NASCAR much before, but after watching several races to find the right one for this activity, we are starting to respect the sport a little more.

In this activity, you’ll choose drivers to cheer for throughout the race and compete with your partner to see whose racers can bring in the big win. The winner gets to celebrate in true NASCAR fashion – loser beware!

What you need for this activity

• A cheap bottle of champagne

Instructions

Psst! Before you get started, check out the instructions for Activity 5 as well, which you can do during this NASCAR activity.

1. Choose 5 of the following 10 drivers each. Each partner will receive points for their chosen drivers based on their standings in Stage 1, Stage 2, and the entire race.
   

Austin Dillon

#3, Chevy

Chase Elliott

#9, Chevy

Michael McDowell

#34, Ford

Denny Hamlin

#11, Toyota

Kevin Harvick

#4, Ford

Bubba Wallace

#23, Toyota

Joey Logano

#22, Ford

Kyle Larson

#5, Chevy

Ross Chastain

#42, Chevy

Ryan Preece

#37, Chevy

2. Once each partner has chosen their drivers, start the race video below.
3. Watch from minute 22 to approximately minute 25 of the video to see a huge crash (because, let’s be honest, we can’t not watch that).
4. Watch the final 10 laps of Stage One starting at 1:08:00 on the video.
   a. At the end of Stage 1, record how many points each partner’s 5 drivers got. The driver that gets first place gets 10 points, the driver in second place gets 9 points, and down so that the driver in 10th place gets 1 point. Drivers that don’t place in the top 10 do not receive any points.
   • i. If you can’t catch the rankings in the video itself, you can double-check the results below.
5. Watch the last 8 laps of Stage 2 starting at 2:15:00 on the video.
   a. At the end of the Stage 2, record the points in the same way as before with 10 points for the driver in first place down to 1 point for the driver in 10th place.
   • i. If you can’t catch the rankings in the video itself, you can double-check the results below.
6. Watch the last 15 laps of the race starting at 3:12:00 on the video. It gets exciting so make sure to watch all the way to the end!
   a. At the end of the race, record the points in the same way as you did with the stages with 10 points for the driver in first place down to 1 point for the driver in 10th place.
   • i. If you can’t catch the rankings in the video itself, you can double-check the results below.
7. Add up the points for each partner’s 5 drivers from the 3 events and declare a winner!
8. The winners of the NASCAR races usually celebrate by spraying a bottle of champagne, and we are going to do the same. The winner of the activity gets to spray down the loser with the bottle of champagne in the shower!
   a. Be sure to remove the cork to your champagne bottle first, then cover the top with your thumb, shake, and spray!

Would you rather eat snake roadkill or raccoon roadkill for dinner?

If you had to choose which teeth you would rather be missing, would you choose your molars or your front teeth?

Which event at the Redneck Games (which is totally a real thing) would you win in?

a. Bobbing for pig’s feet

b. Toilet seat throwing (like horseshoes but with toilet seats)

c. Mud pit belly flop

d. Wet T-shirt contest

e. Armpit serenade (armpit fart noises)

Would you rather spend a whole day fishing on a rowboat and not catch a single fish, or try noodling (catching catfish by their mouths in underwater holes with your bare hands) and catch a World Record-sized fish on your first try?

Which one of you would be most likely to ________?

a. sit outside on a lawn chair at the trailer park and keep an eye on all the neighbors

b. have a potbelly pig as an indoor pet

c. make a pool with a tarp in the bed of their truck

d. lose a leg in a lawn mower racing accident

e. wear head-to-toe camouflage to a wedding

Would you rather spend an entire day watching NASCAR races or monster truck rallies?

You find a rabbit in the woods with a broken leg. You have to shoot it or take it home with you and nurse it back to health to be re-released in the wild. What do you do?

For a whole year, would you rather drink a can of cheap lite beer every time you ate or an 8oz glass of straight moonshine once a day at the time of your choosing?

What would you name your monster truck?

Would you rather live with your family in a 750 sqft loft in the city with the view of a brick wall our your window, or in a 2,500 sqft house in a tiny town in the south with a great view of nature out panoramic windows?